Katherine update
Jul. 8th, 2005 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dtmSo Katherine is now walking. She started walking a few weeks ago while all of us were at Carleton for Jennifer's 10-year reunion. It sometimes seems as though she doesn't really know how to stop reliably except by running into something, though I've also seen her come to a full stop in the middle of the floor.
She passed 18 months this past Sunday.
Her vocabulary is now growing by leaps and bounds. The word count is well over 50, so I'm not going to do a table like I did before. Not surprisingly, most of her words are nouns.
There is one interesting thing about her speech: when a word ends in a final /z/ sound, Katherine has been using "ee" instead. So while "shoe" is "du", "shoes" becomes "du-ee" (A bit like "Dewey"). Likewise, "bah-bul-ee" (bubbles) and "no-ee" (nose). Also, "geeee" for "keys" and "djeeee" for "cheese".
She also has decided that "Grandma" should be pronounced "baba". We have no idea where this came from (neither of Katherine's grandmothers has any Slavic ancestry nor have they ever used this word). As far as we can tell, it's just the result of Katherine deforming "Grandma" into something she can say, like when she uses "wawa" for "water". (Although she may have possibly overheard us say "wawa" occasionally in the past to refer to the convenience store chain, at the time when she first said that word the person teaching her the word - my sister - was definitely saying nothing but "water")
She passed 18 months this past Sunday.
Her vocabulary is now growing by leaps and bounds. The word count is well over 50, so I'm not going to do a table like I did before. Not surprisingly, most of her words are nouns.
There is one interesting thing about her speech: when a word ends in a final /z/ sound, Katherine has been using "ee" instead. So while "shoe" is "du", "shoes" becomes "du-ee" (A bit like "Dewey"). Likewise, "bah-bul-ee" (bubbles) and "no-ee" (nose). Also, "geeee" for "keys" and "djeeee" for "cheese".
She also has decided that "Grandma" should be pronounced "baba". We have no idea where this came from (neither of Katherine's grandmothers has any Slavic ancestry nor have they ever used this word). As far as we can tell, it's just the result of Katherine deforming "Grandma" into something she can say, like when she uses "wawa" for "water". (Although she may have possibly overheard us say "wawa" occasionally in the past to refer to the convenience store chain, at the time when she first said that word the person teaching her the word - my sister - was definitely saying nothing but "water")